Posts Tagged ‘Tom Wolfe’

My sister-in-law, a teacher, spent most of the Christmas holidays sitting at a desk in the living room marking papers and filling out reports, while I sat in front of the television, drunk, ranting ab...
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Last night's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? was an interesting one, featuring the Bee Gees' Robin Gibb looking at his Scottish great-grandfather, Matthew, who was a soldier in the Indian Army du...
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Six weeks ago I wrote a blog post in which I pointed out the uncanny similarities between the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe's masterly satire of New York socie...
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The story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fall from grace is awfully reminiscent of the fate suffered by Sherman McCoy in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Like the Wall Street banker, the IMF chief is...
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Liberalism may be genetic, according to a new study published by Cambridge University Press: Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from th...
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